Re: [squid-users] Hotmail Still

Hehehe... I've come to learn in my three years of working with Squid
that if there is a PIX in the path, it's the first place to look--Squid
is probably not the problem.

I'm sure it is a fine platform, but I've seen a quite high number of
compatibility issues discussed where a PIX was the cause.

hoatsonr@mwhse.com wrote:
> I want to apologize to the list as this is not a squid issue.
>
> Hopefully someone will find this information useful:
>
> All my users browse the net through a pix firewall, which is configured to
> url filter through a websense server. Once I disabled url filtering on the
> pix (bypassing websense), proxy clients to hotmail work fine. I've added an
> exception for the squid server to not be url-filtered for now.
>
> Thanks,
> Robert Hoatson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Cooper [mailto:joe@swelltech.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 12:26 PM
> To: Hoatson Robert
> Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Hotmail Still
>
>
> I haven't seen this problem, either transparently or with traditional
> proxying (and we don't disable caching of these sites either).
>
> It sounds like the request is timing out and then the browser
> re-requests it--which then works. Do you have a firewall between Squid
> and the internet?
>
> Have you tried it without the no_cache directives? (It shouldn't make a
> difference, but I'm curious.)
>
> hoatsonr@mwhse.com wrote:
>
>>Posting again because I haven't solved my hotmail.com problem which is
>>preventing me from deploying squid.
>>
>>Running on Squid 2.4 Stable4 on Freebsd 4.5-Release. Added gre
>>patches, gre.c and recompiled the kernel with GRE, IPFIREWALL and
>>IPFIREWALL_FORWARD options.
>>
>>Currently, I am only pointing my browser at the squid box on port 3128
>>for testing but will deploy with wccp/interception caching when I work
>>this problem out.
>>
>>The problem I am having is when logging into, out of, composing mail,
>>etc on hotmail.com.
>>Example: after logging in to hotmail, when I click 'inbox' it appears
>>I get no response and squids access.log shows no activity. In
>>reality, if I wait about 2 minutes the pages come up and access.log
>>updates.
>>
>>I have the following no_cache entries in squid.conf:
>>
>>acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
>>acl hotmail dstdomain .hotmail.com
>>acl msn dstdomain .msn.com
>>acl passport dstdomain .passport.com
>>no_cache deny QUERY
>>no_cache deny hotmail
>>no_cache deny msn
>>no_cache deny passport
>>
>>I also have the following configured while testing in anticipation of
>>interception caching: http_port 3128
>>httpd_accel_host virtual
>>httpd_accel_port 80
>>httpd_accel_with_proxy on
>>httpd_accel_uses_host_header on
>>
>>I sincerely appreciate any help offered.
>>Robert Hoatson
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>

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Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
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